Mike Kilian On The Opportunities And Challenges Of Workplace Digital Signage July 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes Just about anyone involved on the sales or management side of digital signage these days knows that workplace communications has pretty quickly grown into one of the most active and interesting verticals. With QSRs, the other hot vertical, you’re doing menus and digital promo posters. In the workplace, all kinds of interesting things are possible, …
Screenfeed Develops Free-To-Use Content To Help Find Missing Kids In US May 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes The great folks at Minneapolis-based Screenfeed have been working on something since last October with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the U.S. Using an API from the center, Screenfeed has built a content feed of kids that are missing, based on the location. Screenfeed Jeremy Gavin says his team has built …
NYC’s 28 Liberty Gets Reinvigorated With Big Lobby LED Features May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of how big fine-pitch LED video walls are the 2019 version of 1980s and 90s water features in office tower lobbies. The property owners for 28 Liberty in New York wanted a visual solution that reinvigorated the space and, more to the point, made tenants want to move in and existing ones decide …
Bjorn Pieper Of NDS On Using Data To Make Digital Signage Networks Truly Smart March 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Dutch software company NDS has been offering a digital signage software solution for 25 years now, and like the handful of other companies that have been around this business that long, they’ve survived and grown based on the ability to do certain things very well. In the case of NDS, the company’s roots and …
DSE 2019 Booth Previews: Quividi Showing Its Real-time Audience Analytics For Digital Signage March 12, 2019 by Dave Haynes QUIVIDI – DSE Booth Number 3209 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Because Quividi is the industry standard in real-time audience & content analytics for digital signage and visual retail, with over 600 end-customers and 1 billion people counted every month in 80+ …
Intuiface Adds Deep Analytics To Its Interactive Design Suite December 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes The French software firm Intuiface is the latest vendor in the digital signage ecosystem to add analytics capabilities to its overall offer – though in this case it is less about viewer movement and time as it is about the specifics of interactive display sessions. The company describes Intuiface Analytics as a “product set enabling any …
Scott Kolber Of Roadify On Organizing Transit Data For The Masses November 21, 2018 by Dave Haynes Mass transport data is some of the stickiest content out there for digital signage screens. It’s information people tend to want and need, and they’ll habitually look at screens to get it. Tapping into the open data from one transport authority, to show it on screens, is relatively easy. It gets more complicated when you …
Nike Opens Screen-Filled, Frictionless Shopping Flagship In NYC November 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Nike late last week opened the doors to what it calls “House of Innovation 000” – a new six-level flagship store at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York that is built around making shopping largely frictionless, and uses a lot of screens. The 68,000 square foot store includes a center-hung, multi-level not-sure-what-I’d-call-it multi-sensory tower structure …
Taking Analog Style, And Going Digital With It November 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a digitized take on those analog flip-flap, flip-disc boards, like the ones coming out of Philadelphia profiled yesterday. The New Zealand wing of the Flight Centre travel agency chain, if it is like Flight Centres I’ve seen elsewhere, has for many, many years had signs in windows and inside that list airfare costs for …
New Split Flap Display Adds Digital Spin To Old School Information Signs November 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes I’m a total sucker for flip disc displays – electro-mechanical signs that rapidly flip through a succession of characters to convey information in a way that’s old school cool, and kind of hypnotic. The tech is not new. These sorts of signs have been in airports and rail stations since the ’60s. But they’ve had …
